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Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and Western Europe.
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Index: Concepts
References to images are in italics.
A
Abbasids 1, 5, 9, 11, 12–15
Abu Muslimiyya 12–13
administration:
and Barmakids 17
and Ghaznavids 110
and Il-Khanids 257
and Karakhanids 102
and Liao dynasty 139
and Mongols 69, 149–50, 176, 194, 213
and Qara Khitai 146–7
and Samanids 27
and Seljuks 88, 93
and Tanguts 152
and Yuan dynasty 223, 226, 231, 237–8
Afrighids 42, 127–8
Aga Khan 96
agriculture 22, 32, 60, 89, 232; see also farmers
Ain Jalut, Battle of 71, 211, 219–20, 258
Aklaq-e Nasiri (The Nairean Ethics) (Al-Tusi) 48, 49, 50
Aksobhya 235
Alans 76, 201
Alan guard in Yuan dynasty 201, 226, 340n.12
Alawites 10, 322n.31
algebra 1, 36–7, 325n.24
Altan Debter (‘Golden Book’) 164, 168
Altuntashids 127–8
Amitabha 152, 153, 156–7, 235
Amoghasiddhi 199, 235
An Lushan rebellion 5, 138, 139
anda, blood brotherhood 169
Andkhud, Battle of 126, 132, 149
angels 38
Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 310
animals 50, 102
Ankara, Battle of 281, 284, 288, 290
Antipodes 207
Anushteginids 129–36
apostasy 51, 326n.103
Aq Qoyunlu 59, 300
Arabic language 30, 34
Arabs 1, 5, 164
arban 177
archaeology 61, 123,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Iranian-Muslim Dynasties in South-West Central Asia
- II. Central Asian Pioneers of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences
- III. The Second Turkic Migrations to the West
- IV. Turco-Muslim Dynasties in Southern Central Asia
- V. Buddhist States of the Liao, Qara Khitai and Tanguts
- VI. The Rise of the Mongols
- VII. The United Mongol Empire
- VIII. The Independent Mongol Khanates
- IX. Timur-e Lang and the Timurids
- X. Outlook
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of Maps
- Photo Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- eCopyright